Humanoid Robotics Technology
Sharpa has unveiled North, its first full-body robot, at CES 2026. As Sharpa states in its mission, “We manufacture time by making robots useful.” North is built for productivity-focused autonomy. North integrates dexterous manipulation with smooth whole-body control, enabling it to autonomously perform complex tasks across diverse real-world settings.
At CES 2026, North delivered four fully autonomous live demonstrations. In these demos, North rallies in ping-pong with a 0.02-second reaction time. It captures instant photos with ~2 mm precision. It also deals cards using multimodal reasoning, with real-time vision and language inputs. North further builds a paper windmill through a 30+ step handicraft sequence. It sustains steady hand-eye-tactile coordination throughout the process and maintains accurate manipulation over extended task durations. The windmill demo represents one of the longest continuous autonomous manipulation sequences publicly demonstrated by a robot to date.
North’s blockbuster debut in Las Vegas highlights a combination of capabilities Sharpa believes are critical to making full-body robots truly useful:
- Human-like upper-body range of motion, from neck to waist and from shoulder to wrist
- Reliable performance on contact-rich manipulation, such as extracting a single card from a full deck
- High success rates sustained across long-horizon tasks and diverse scenarios, rather than isolated one-off demonstrations
These capabilities are enabled by a proprietary neural-network model, advanced kinematics and dynamics optimization, and Sharpa Wave, Sharpa’s mass-produced dexterous hand. SharpaWave is an anthropomorphic, 1:1 human-scale robotic hand with 22 active degrees of freedom and ultra-sensitive tactile feedback, including sub-millimeter resolution and more than 1,000 tactile pixels per fingertip.
Sharpa is building toward a more human-centred future of robotics. As robots like North become increasingly general-purpose and autonomous, they can augment human capability in everyday life, freeing people from repetitive work and giving them back time for higher-value pursuits.
Source: Sharpa
